The Shropshire Business Partnership is a network for professional and business services companies in the county run by its members.

BBC: Nick Chavasse

This will be run in partnership with Qi Qi Jiang, a young Shanghai entrepreneur who combines developing her own business with studying for a doctorate in Oriental art at Oxford University.

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Under Armour makes a donation to begin a sewing business that works in conjunction with the micro-finance initiative run by the church in Nicaragua in partnership with the ORPHANetwork supported by GraceCity, whose collective mission is to serve a community living in the biggest dump in the poorest country in the Americas.

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